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Director
Maya Deren
- Born April 29, 1917 in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Died October 13, 1961
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.
Known for
Meshes of the Afternoon1943
At Land1944
A Study in Choreography for Camera1945
Ritual in Transfigured Time1946
The Private Life of a Cat1946
Witch's Cradle1944
The Very Eye of Night1958
Meditation on Violence1949
Filmography
- 2024Alter Ego Film ProjectFilmOriginal Film Writer
- 2023Vever (For Barbara)FilmSound, Writer
- 2012Maya Deren, Take ZeroFilmHerself, Music
- 2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmFilmHerself (archive footage)
- 2011Maya Deren's SinkFilmHerself (archival footage)
- 2006Cinema16: American Short FilmsFilmDirector
- 2002In the Mirror of Maya DerenFilmHerself
- 2002Maya Deren - Experimental FilmsFilmCinematography, Director, Editor, Writer
- 1993Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of HaitiFilmDirector, Director of Photography, Book
- 1986Invocation: Maya DerenFilmHerself (archive footage)
- 1959Season of StrangersFilmDirector
- 1958The Very Eye of NightFilmDirector, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
- 1951Ensemble for SomnambulistsFilmDirector, Writer, Producer
- 1949Meditation on ViolenceFilmDirector, Writer, Cinematography
- 1949MedusaFilmDirector
- 1946Ritual in Transfigured TimeFilmDirector
- 1946The Private Life of a CatFilmProducer, Co-Director
- 1945A Study in Choreography for CameraFilmDirector
- 1945A Study in Choreography for Camera - OuttakesFilmDirector
- 1944At LandFilmDirector, Writer
- 1944Witch's CradleFilmDirector
- 1943Meshes of the AfternoonFilmThe Woman, Director, Editor, Writer